Ventrakl

By Christian Hawkey

Poetry. Christian Hawkey's VENTRAKL folds poetry, prose, biography, translation practices, and photographic imagery into a ground-breaking collaboration with the 19th / early 20th century Austrian Expressionist poet Georg Trakl. What evolves is a candid and deeply felt portrait of two authors--one at the beginning of the 20th century, the other at the beginning of the 21st century, one living and one dead--wrestling with fundamental concerns: how we read texts and images, how we are influenced and authored by other writers, and how the practice of translation--including mistranslation--is a way to ornament and enrich the space between literature and life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933254645
• ISBN13: 9781933254647
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.